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First woman in Australia to win a Rotary Foundation Fellowship (1949: Dept of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge, UK); first woman to be awarded a PhD in geology from an Australian university (University of Tasmania: 1952); one of first women Professors in an Australian university (Foundation Professor of Geology, University of Newcastle: 1965); first woman Dean of Science in an Australian university (University of Newcastle: 1969)